Watch What You Eat: Too Much Sugar Can Shorten Your Life

A recent study indicated a clear connections between more sugar in a diet and a shorter life span.  The study was reported in ScienceDaily (link below).

As you modify your lifestye to lose weight, remember that sugar does more than just add pounds.  It may also cheact you out of fun and productive years of life (Talk about a good reason to drop donuts!).

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ScienceDaily (Nov. 5, 2009) — If worms are any indication, all the sugar in your diet could spell much more than obesity and type 2 diabetes. Researchers reporting in the November issue of Cell Metabolism, a Cell Press publication, say it might also be taking years off your life.

By adding just a small amount of glucose to C. elegans usual fare of straight bacteria, they found the worms lose about 20 percent of their usual life span. They trace the effect to insulin signals, which can block other life-extending molecular players.


Although the findings are in worms, Cynthia Kenyon of the University of California, San Francisco, says there are known to be many similarities between worms and people in the insulin signaling pathways.

To read the full article, please click this link:   http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091103121605.htm